“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“Stars of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!”

“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason. …And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”

“In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”

“Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.”

“Like a moth to a flame
Burned by the fire.
My love is blind
Can't you see my desire?”

“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”

“Mean time the Queen wounded with deep desire,
Bleeds inward, and consumes in hidden Fire.”

“My one, my one, my only love,
Hide, hide your face in a leaf,
And let the hot tear falling burn
The stupid heart that will not learn
The everywhere of grief.”